Quora User Profile

Scrape a Quora user's public profile: display name, bio, credentials, follower and following counts, answer and question counts, and total upvotes received.

Use cases

• Identify subject-matter experts by credential and engagement metrics.
• Track thought leader presence on Quora for PR and outreach campaigns.
• Research which users produce the most-upvoted answers in a topic area.

Why use this actor

Parses Quora's __NEXT_DATA__ JSON embedded in the HTML — the same data the React app uses — without requiring login or API keys.

Sample output

Input: profile/Andrei-Gheorghiu-6

Requires Chrome131 TLS impersonation. Cloudflare-protected.

{
  "_input": "profile/Andrei-Gheorghiu-6",
  "_source": "S1-html-next_data",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-13T...",
  "uid": "AABcDeF1234",
  "name": "Andrei Gheorghiu",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Andrei-Gheorghiu-6",
  "followerCount": 12341,
  "followingCount": 234,
  "answerCount": 89,
  "credential": "PhD in Computer Science",
  "about": "Researcher in machine learning and NLP."
}

Note

• Quora uses Cloudflare bot protection; residential proxy is required.
• Accepts usernames (e.g. Adam-DAngelo) or full quora.com/profile/... URLs.
• Deactivated or anonymous accounts return limited or no data.